Hanna knows all about hard work. For years shes labored to complete her apprenticeship and become a pastry chef. Driven from her home once before, shes willing to endure whatever it takes to keep her position in the palace kitchens of Northhelm. But when she finally has a chance for all her dreams to come true, everything goes wrong. In danger of losing both her future as a pastry chef, and the man shes loved for years, Hanna will have to decide if shes ready to fight for herself, as well as for Stefan. The Coronation Ball is a novelette of approximately 15,000 words that follows Hanss sister after she flees Rangmere to build a life in Northhelm. It is an expanded version of a short story previously titled The Pastry Chefs Apprentice, published in the anthology Happily Ever Afters.